J.J. Watt greets adoring fans at training camp

Fans, mainly young girls, scream his name. They squeal and beg him for autographs and pictures. He does his best to accommodate as many as possible.

After practice this morning — the last that fans can attend — players scattered around the field to sign as many autographs as they could before they had to leave the field.

As Watt approached the stands and his legion of screaming fans, I noticed one girl — 16-year-old Katie Kaulford — holding a sign for Watt. She had tears in her eyes.

Watt made her day, her week, her month and maybe her year. He signed for her, gave her his Gatorade towel, hugged her and posed for pictures. That’s another of the many, many examples why Watt is so popular with the fans.

If Watt has that effect on fans in his third training camp, imagine what it might be for him in, say, five years after he’s compiled more honors and set more records.